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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after inadvertently landing in the Americas, he told the Queen and King of Spain that he had reached Asia and an island off of China. In reality, Columbus had traveled to what currently-known locations?

2. The Second Seminole War began in 1835 and lasted until when?

3. When was Catharine Beecher born?

4. Where was the Anti-Rent War centralized?

5. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Flour Riot of 1837 described in Chapter 10? What was the cause of the riot?

2. How does Howard Zinn describe the growth in the number of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 in Chapter 9?

3. What did Columbus discover when he returned to his fort at Navidad on his second journey, according to the author in Chapter 1? What did he take with him?

4. How does the author describe Virginia’s “chain of oppression” in Chapter 3?

5. What was the first representative assembly introduced in Virginia? What were the responsibilities of this assembly regarding slavery?

6. Who wrote the history of Columbus’s adventures in Cuba from the perspective of the inhabitants, according to the author in Chapter 1?

7. How does the author compare and contrast the treatment of women to that of the Native Americans in Chapter 7?

8. Why did the English send 1,000 soldiers to Virginia in 1676, according to the author in Chapter 3?

9. What choice were the Native American people given in regard to their futures and their homes, according to the author in Chapter 7?

10. What positive qualities of the establishment of the United States does Zinn discuss in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the My Lai Massacre and its impact on anti-war activists and the public perceptions of the Vietnam War. When did the trial take place which accused the involved soldiers of war crimes? Who was found guilty and what time was served?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the colonization of the Americas and the settlements of the English, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other colonists that came to the New World to establish governance. Where did the first Puritan settlers land? What indigenous people lived in these regions? How many Native Americans died as a result of disease brought by the Europeans? How many died as a result of war and violence?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the chain of oppression in Jamestown and the other British colonies in the latter half of the 1600s. In the social hierarchy, where did women exist? Where were African slaves and Native Americans in the hierarchy? Who had the greatest economic control?

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